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Ultra High Definition Video
mr.henry writes "Engineers at the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) have developed a prototype ultra high definition video (UHDV) system. How good is it? When it was shown to the public, some viewers experienced nausea because of the ultra realistic visual effect of speed without the usual physical sensation of movement. 18 minutes of UHDV takes up 3.5 terabytes." 4,000 horizontal scanlines. Excellent.
ultra first post
did someone develop an almost useless camera? or did they just figure some new way to do it without a camera? (ya right) someone fill me in
"Martha Stewart can lick my Scrotum......do i have a scrotum?" -- Sharon Osbourne
have a low-res torrent of this? Just imagine a beowulf cluster of stupid comments
...er. Windows - 1 CD
Last RedHat distro I installed.. 3 CD's.
Not that want to dis Linux or anything but these days the average install seems to use more disk space than Windows.
One CD of windows installs just Windows
3 CDs of Linux installs quite a bit more than just Linux OS
Synergies are basically awesome, and they're even better when you leverage them. -PA
Nice troll, and I'll bite....
The 1 Windows CD includes an OS, some minor utilities (calculator, sol.exe, wordpad), configuration tools, etc.
The three redhat CDs contain an OS, all the utilities, several major databases, a bunch of server services (apache, postfix, php, sendmail), office tools (openoffice, abiword, koffice, gnome office) two separate desktop environments, each with their own tools, utilities, and applications, and much more.
I think a better comparision woud be something like the Knoppix LiveCD which is a single CD and lets you run the OS, and utilities and applications.
How can it be a troll? It's a simple fact. Yes the RedHat CD's contain a lot, however if you compare the average install you need more disk space for linux.
I cant believe I got called a fucking troll for saying that. What the fuck is this? apple.slashdot.org or something?
Hahahahahaha!
Well, look at the "average" windows install, as given by companies like Dell: Windows, MSoffice (that's another few CDs, since you seem to like counting in CDs), probably some antivirus stuff (another CD), and some driver CDs. I think that the average Windows install is still more than the average linux install, and to include things like OpenOffice in the average linux install and not include MS office in the average windows install is to render the comparison pointless.
There are 2 unusual lessons from the development of digital video. The first lesson is that pornography is the driver of improvements in video equipment -- from VCRs to HDTVs. Adult video is something that you simply must see -- with the eyes. If the resolution improves by 50%, then the porn video becomes 50% better. Adult video is a multibillion industry if you measure all the videos produced in the world.
The second lesson is that there is simply no justification, whatsoever, for allowing H-1B workers to work in the United States of America (USA). Allow me to explain.
We are all familiar with the comparison between the UltraSPARC III and the SPARC64-V. The management of Sun Microsystems says that it absolutely must have H-1B employees in order to build the "best" microprocessor, the UltraSPARC III. By comparision, Fujitsu hires almost exclusively native employees (i. e. Japanese citizens) and used native employees (not foreign workers) to build the SPARC64-V. It implements the same insruction set that the UltraSPARC III implements but significantly outperforms the UltraSPARC III on 3 key benchmarks: SPECint2000, SPECfp2000, and TPC-C. Please verify the performance characteristics of the SPARC64-V at the web site for SPEC and the web site for TPC-C.
Another interesting example is high-definition television (HDTV) Please read "The History and Politics of DTV".
The typical foreigner claims that H-1B workers help to give American companies a technological edge to create whole new industries. The typical foreigner claims that foreign workers helped the Americans to leapfrog the Japanese in the area of HDTV. The Japanese had established an HDTV standard prior to 1989 and had begun broadcasting HDTV programs by 1989, but this standard was based on analog techniques. In the 1990s, the Americans developed an HDTV standard based on digital techniques. The foreigners claim that foreign brainpower helped the USA to leap ahead of Japan.
Not really. Once the HDTV standard based on digital techniques was established, the Japanese (and the Koreans) commercialized the technology. Most of the HDTV products that you see in the USA are manufactured in Japan (and Korea).
The lesson here is that, "even if" terminating H-1B employment may diminish American innovation and simultaneously increase innovation in India (for example), the Indians may not be able to effectively commercialize the technology. Given the superiority (e.g., low rate of software piracy) of Western society, the Americans would be able to out-commerialze any innovation that appears in India before the Indians achieve commercialization.
The phrase "even if" is used because there is simply no evidence to suggest that terminating H-1B employement will diminish American innovation. Innovation is a hard thing to predict -- for the very reason that creativity is hard to predict. For example, Japan was initially ahead in HDTV by using analog techniques in the 1980s; at the time, many "experts" predicted that the USA would fall permanently behind in HDTV technology. Nonetheless, the USA raced ahead in HDTV by using digital techniques. Now, Japan is ahead again by pushing the envelope of HDTV technology to create ultra HDTV.